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Philip rails against TV controls
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:05:32 +0100
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8300524.stm
Philip rails against TV controls
The Duke of Edinburgh has attacked the complexity of television sets and
remote controls, giving a rare glimpse of life inside the Windsor
household.
Prince Philip said the quality of design had in some areas declined, an ...
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The great switchover deficiency
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:05:33 +0100
Thousands of TV viewers in Copeland have lost two of their favourite
channels after they were dropped by Freeview. They say that ITV3 and ITV4
have been dropped to make way for channel 5 and HD broadcasts in the future.
Around 25,000 homes will be affected in the Copeland area supplied by the
Bigrigg relay tra ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:15:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 08:52:16 +0100, Tim Lamb suggested:
> Using waste heat for space heating only works if you have generating
> plant in the middle of towns and you don't have warm summers:-)
Metz, Lorraine has warm (compared to England) summers and the CHP there,
one of the oldest in France has w ...
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BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:33:41 +0100
In Radioworld
http://www.radioworld.com/article/88216
BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:15:20 -0700 (PDT)
On 1 Oct, 16:19, "Bill Wright" <insertmybusinessn...@f2s.com> wrote:
> "Java Jive" <j...@evij.com.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:9bp7c5h88tbd3ooda22j98tehuibjlidtq@4ax.com...
>
> > I wonder how long it would take to repay the energy invested in
> > building it, how long it would take to silt up, and what, if ...
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Re: OT: Posting style - was: Re: Switch off at the socket?
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:20:22 +0100
In article <D_adnZltzMiyLVXXnZ2dnUVZ8hOdnZ2d@pipex.net>,
Bill Wright wrote:
> I met a lady called Pixie once, in a flat in Rotherham. She turned out to be
> extremely fat and tattooed, and I doubt if she had ever heard of Midsummer
> Night's Dream, or even Shakespeare.
So Puck's out of the question, then? ...
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Anyone else having problems with BBC Band II today
Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:28:04 +0100
I wonder if anyone else is having problems with BBC Band II radio
services today or is it just the North of Scotland?
Been just about unusable since at least lunchtime with glitches, bursts
of distortion and loud buzzing noise occasionally. Seems to affecting
Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 probably Radio Sc ...
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Blurovision
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:21:56 +0100
I tuned in to the Jonathan Ross interview with Barbara Streisand on BBC one
Freesat this evening and noticed that the picture quality was unusually soft
and lacking in the usual detail for this program, switched over to HD on
chan 108 and even in HD I don't think it looked near as good as the Ross
show usually ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:44:59 +0100
In message <cup9c5pdo86uucuofd9j2mo5hnopqbn8gr@4ax.com>, Java Jive
<java@evij.com.invalid> writes
>1) As you say, Agent is not broken (I prefer to think that too many
>peoples' 20thC habits are).
Half the time, when you're doing multi-point responses, you bottom post
and the other half the time you top po ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:18:25 +0100
In article <9bp7c5h88tbd3ooda22j98tehuibjlidtq@4ax.com>,
Java Jive wrote:
> One of the problem with doing anything like this with the Severn is
> silt. A brief search didn't find any stats, but I believe it's one of
> the 'dirtiest' - most sediment laden - in the UK. I used to live
> in the area, and anyon ...
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